Small groups that are basically just being organized usually start with mass meetings, and the officers are chosen by almost 100% of the members, because the voters are all the people present at the meetings.

After the group is organized, then it's true that percentage of people voting can be small.

I don't think that ITT/Maemo ever went thru the "we're just getting started, everybody vote" stage.

The correct procedure from a political organizational point of view, I think, would have been to have the elections on ITT, not Maemo, and to allow 100% of the registered users to vote on representatives without taking any further action.

That would at any rate have avoided my comments about "Maemo is taking over," which was very upsetting because of the capitalization problem.